2025 Thriller Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down

Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

Release Date: January 14, 2025

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Cross My Heart by Megan Collins

Release Date: January 14, 2025

She has his wife’s heart; the one she wants is his. The author of The Family Plot brings her signature “taut, emotionally charged, and propulsive” (Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author) prose to a twisty novel about a heart transplant patient who becomes romantically obsessed with her donor’s husband.

A Killing Cold by Kate Alice Marshall

Release Date: February 4, 2025

A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret―and that she’s been there before, by the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods.

You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego

Release Date: February 11, 2025

Debut Author

An exclusive thriller writer’s retreat hosted on a private island turns lethal when one of the authors is found murdered.

Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

Release Date: February 25, 2025

From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an addictive thriller about a new mother’s world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime. How well does she truly know the man she loves? And what danger does she face if her entire life has been built on a lie?

Count My Lies by Sophie Stava

Release Date: March 4, 2025

A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. For the millions of us still chasing those gone girls, this is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.

This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead

Release Date: March 25, 2025

From the national bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour comes a chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches.

The Last Session by Julia Bartz

Release Date: April 1, 2025

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a white-knuckled locked-room thriller about a social worker who, after coming face-to-face with her dark past, must infiltrate a mysterious wellness center in the deserts of New Mexico.

What Remains of Teague House by Stacy Johns

Release Date: April 8, 2025

For readers of Megan Collins with the taut character study of Angie Kim comes a searing mystery that follows three siblings as they reckon with the darkness hidden within their family after multiple graves are discovered behind their childhood home.

The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose

Release Date: April 15, 2025

It’s been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. After discovering her new husband, Bob, engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former Deputy Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth. But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues.

The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers

Release Date: May 6, 2025

Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.

Parents Weekend by Alex Finlay

Release Date: May 6, 2025

From the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers. Told through multiple points of view in past and present―and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear and The Night Shift―Parents Weekend explores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days we all remember in the dorms when our friends become our family.

The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North

Release Date: May 13, 2025

With his signature shock and suspense, Alex North brings us The Man Made of Smoke. In turn emotional, introspective, and utterly terrifying, this is a story of fathers and sons, shadows and secrets, and the fight we all face to escape the trauma of the past.

The Last Ferry Out by Andrea Bartz

Release Date: May 20, 2025

On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident—and the killer’s still on the island—in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here.

The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

Release Date: June 3, 2025

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell comes a dazzling new thriller.

The Bachelorette Party by Camilla Sten

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten.

King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.

With a Vengeance by Riley Sager

Release Date: June 10, 2025

One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.

Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine

Release Date: June 17, 2025

In this twisted psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, a woman is tormented by nightmarish visions of her future—and then they start to come true.

I Did Warn Her by Sian Gilbert

Release Date: June 17, 2025

A luxurious yacht, a gorgeous crew with secrets and rivalries…and murder! I Did Warn Her is a cunning locked room mystery set on a billionaire’s yacht, by the author of last year’s sensation She Started It.

Someone Knows by Vi Keeland

Release Date: June 17, 2025

An English professor’s deadly past comes back to haunt her in this chilling and sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland.

Party of Liars by Kelsey Cox

Release Date: July 1, 2025

A lavish, Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen turns deadly in this twisty, pulse-pounding new novel ― serving up a fresh take on a classic locked-room whodunnit. Let the festivities begin…

The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Second book in a series

In this follow-up to #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware’s multi-million copy mega-hit The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock returns to attend the opening of a luxury hotel, only to find herself in a white-knuckled race across Europe.

This Stays Between Us by Sara Ochs

Release Date: July 15, 2025

For fans of Lucy Foley and Society of Lies comes a crackling study abroad thriller that proves that a trip of a lifetime can have deadly consequences.

She Didn’t See It Coming by Shari Lapena

Release Date: July 29, 2025

When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it’s too late?

You Belong Here by Megan Miranda

Release Date: July 29, 2025

Beckett Bowery never thought she’d return to Wyatt Valley, a picturesque college town in the Virginia mountains steeped in tradition. Her roots there were strong: Beckett’s parents taught at the college, and she never even imagined studying anywhere else—until a tragedy her senior year ended with two local men dead, and her roommate on the run, never to be seen again…

The Locked Ward by Sarah Pekkanen

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Nothing is as it seems in Sarah Pekkanen’s The Locked Ward, a shocking psychological thriller about the complex bonds of sisterhood―and what happens when they are stretched to the breaking point.

Too Old for This by Samantha Downing

Release Date: August 12, 2025

A retired serial killer’s quiet life is upended by an unexpected visitor. To protect her secret, there’s only one option left—what’s another murder?

Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham

Release Date: August 26, 2025

A pulse-pounding new Southern thriller from the author of the runaway bestseller A Flicker in the Dark.

The Belles by Lacey N. Dunham

Release Date: September 9, 2025

In this richly atmospheric, dark academia debut novel, a young woman with a secretive past will risk everything—including her life—to fit in.

The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards

Release Date: September 16, 2025

A dinner party in a beautiful Notting Hill townhouse turns into a sinister game as six old friends are forced to spill their darkest secrets…or else.